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The increases were going to be 7% for next year. That doesn't look broken.
Millions of people have insurance because of the ACA.
People (Republicans included) have been fighting to keep the ACA, and it now enjoys great popularity.
Millions of people have insurance because millions of others pay for it for them. That's not a Republic. That's socialism.
cool story bro. But that does not change the facts.
1 trump did this
2 trump could have just gone to congress, but he has spent his days arguing with everyone from the nations allies to his allies and everyone in between.
Of course this is what happens when a know nothing angry man gets office, he struts around breaking things, because he simply does not know how to build. Ask yourself Jim, what has Trump built since gaining power? NO MAJOR NEW legislation in over 9 months? No nothing, just shouting and smashing
Cry me a river. 95% of the country decided between Trump and Hillary, but I wasn't one of them. I opted to vote for a candidate I actually wanted, rather than one that was selected for me by my party affiliation. I don't like Trump any more than I liked Obama, but logic should tell you that if the subsidies had been appropriated legally this conversation would not exist because Trump would have been unable to touch them. Is it a crappy move to cut the subsidies? Yeah, it is. But at most Trump only gets half the blame, and that's being generous to the Democrats that were behind this cluster#%$& of a law to begin with.
Ends illegal payments to insurance companies that are not authorized by the ACA
Loosens the requirements of what plans must cover to make it easier for people, small companies, etc to get cheaper plans by only paying for things they want instead of some blanket federal mandate
begins the process of allowing insurance to be sold across state lines.
All of these things constitute more freedom, not less.
The payments Obama was making to insurers violates the ACA, the separation of powers and the last federal curt to decide on the matter. That it took Trump this long to wave the pen on that nonsense is annoying, but he is finally getting around to it. The payments to insurers under section 1402 were never supposed to come from Congress, and no authorization for that spending has ever come from the Legislative Branch. Basically, for Trump to be doing his whole "faithful execution of the laws" bit in his job description, he should have ended those unauthorized subsidies the day he took office.
The loosening of requirements is a huge win for the average consumer. I should not be required to carry coverage that I do not want. I do not need any of the mandatory coverage for children, female stuff, or ay of the drug/alcohol/psychiatry stuff. In fact, since I see a doctor so rarely, there's a lot of crap in the mandatory package I simply do not need...but I don't have a choice, thus neither does my insurer, so all of these things must be covered for everyone, driving everyone's prices up. Again, loosening this list of mandatory services is more freedom, not less.
Anything you do to dismantle ObamaCare results in more freedom, not less. That's a simple fact.
There were big Price Increases in years leading up to the ACA. There were also many many substandard 'fake' policies being sold. The ACA was an attempt to, finally, try to make health care for all of us better.
Not a failure, just a first step.
It was a failure.
What is the biggest medical expenditure for seniors? Prescriptions.
What country has the most expensive prescriptions? The US.
Why didn't the ACA say that it's illegal to sell pharmaceuticals in the US for more than what they are sold in other countries?
Why didn't the ACA allow insurance to be sold across state lines?
Why didn't the ACA address the long, convoluted and financially excessive process of getting drugs and medical equipment approved?
The ACA was meant to get us to single payer while redistributing wealth in the process.
Ends illegal payments to insurance companies that are not authorized by the ACA
Loosens the requirements of what plans must cover to make it easier for people, small companies, etc to get cheaper plans by only paying for things they want instead of some blanket federal mandate
begins the process of allowing insurance to be sold across state lines.
All of these things constitute more freedom, not less.
The payments Obama was making to insurers violates the ACA, the separation of powers and the last federal curt to decide on the matter. That it took Trump this long to wave the pen on that nonsense is annoying, but he is finally getting around to it. The payments to insurers under section 1402 were never supposed to come from Congress, and no authorization for that spending has ever come from the Legislative Branch. Basically, for Trump to be doing his whole "faithful execution of the laws" bit in his job description, he should have ended those unauthorized subsidies the day he took office.
The loosening of requirements is a huge win for the average consumer. I should not be required to carry coverage that I do not want. I do not need any of the mandatory coverage for children, female stuff, or ay of the drug/alcohol/psychiatry stuff. In fact, since I see a doctor so rarely, there's a lot of crap in the mandatory package I simply do not need...but I don't have a choice, thus neither does my insurer, so all of these things must be covered for everyone, driving everyone's prices up. Again, loosening this list of mandatory services is more freedom, not less.
Anything you do to dismantle ObamaCare results in more freedom, not less. That's a simple fact.
I agree with the spirit of ACA but that being said I think its fatal mistake is the required services. I think that should've been left to the market. I think a car-maker should be totally entitled to build a car without brakes (provided they didn't sell it otherwise)... their fault if no one buys it and the market forces them to include it.
What is the biggest medical expenditure for seniors? Prescriptions.
What country has the most expensive prescriptions? The US.
Why didn't the ACA say that it's illegal to sell pharmaceuticals in the US for more than what they are sold in other countries?
Why didn't the ACA allow insurance to be sold across state lines?
Why didn't the ACA address the long, convoluted and financially excessive process of getting drugs and medical equipment approved?
The ACA was meant to get us to single payer while redistributing wealth in the process.
The bolded items, while I believe are necessary, would've been impossible to do as part of ACA. That would fundamentally change our IP, medical standards, and a host of other regulations. I don't even think Trump would be able to make those sweeping changes given the huge lobbies out there. Though on the topic of regulating pricing... IDK, that's a slippery slope. I don't think the gov't should be telling companies how much they can charge and where (including what ACA did).
Insurance across state lines... insurance companies have already said that's a non-factor and they don't care about that.
Exactly which law forbids hospitals from taking action to collect that money?
The law says they must be given treatment not that hospitals must provide it for free.
The problem is, if the person can't pay, it's just not worth it for the hospital to spend the legal fees to squeeze water from a rock. They don't get anything just by ruining the customer's credit... they're still out the original fees, plus thousands to hundreds of thousands in legal fees.
You are seeing hospitals increasingly demand payment before care but I think it's the catastrophic ER care that's running them dry.
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